Quotes 21 till 40 of 77.
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He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
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I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
― Abraham Cahan
Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician -
If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home.
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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
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If of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been, More sad are those we daily see, It is, but it hadn't ought to be.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
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It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.
Source: Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 4 -
It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
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Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
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Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
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My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.
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